If Fort Apache, She Wore a yellow Ribbon, and Rio Grande are a trillogy, the same cavalry regiment might appear in all three. So close observatin of the insignia on Captain Brittles's kepi and perhaps others in she wore a Yellow Ribbon, and the kepis wore by the boys in the rescue scene, and perhaps other scenes, in Rio Grande, might identify the number(s) of the regiment or regiments involved.
shareCan't say for Fort Apache, or Rio Grande, but the regiment in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is the 2nd Cavalry, specifically C Troop.
"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's LIVING!"
Captain Augustus McCrae
Thank you, I thought I saw a 2.
In 1876 four companies of the 2nd Cavalry were actually in Montana and were in the Great Sioux war.
The rest of the regiment was in the Department of the Platte along with the Third cavalry and each of it's companies to was in at least one of General Crook's four campaigns that years.
So naturally the second cavalry was selected to be stationed farther south in this movie. Possibly the unit in the original stories was also the second cavalry,
Or possibly Captain Brittles was supposed to have originally been a member of the second cavalry (perhaps when it was the second US dragoons before 1861)(or perhaps the other Second US cavalry which became the the fifth cavalry in 1861)but transferred to another regiment by 1876 so he could stay by his wife's grave.
Who did you say wore the kepi with the Second cavalry insignia?
They all did.
"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's LIVING!"
Captain Augustus McCrae
Okay. I can read read the two clearly on Captain Brittles's forage cap. But if you have seen it on other caps the unit in She Wore a Yellow Ribbonis part of the Second Cavalry unhistorically south in 1876. So the question is whether the units in the other two movies were also the Second Cavalry or were other units.
shareI have now seen a number of soldiers wearing caps with the number 2 in both She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and and Rio Grande. It is definitely the 2nd cavalry cap insignia in both of them.
So was captain and later lieutenant colonel Kirby York in Fort Apache the same person as lieutenant colonel Kirby Yorke in Rio Grande? Was the regiment in Fort Apache the 2nd US Cavalry?